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  • New Morph Online Film!

    New Morph Online Film!

    Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman Animations has unveiled a quirky gothic new online film featuring none other than the classic TV character Morph.

    The online film can only be seen on The Space, the new digital arts service developed by Arts Council England in partnership with the BBC to provide a unique platform for artists and arts organisations to showcase their work.

    The new Aardman Animations online film has been created to celebrate 38 years of Forkbeard Fantasy, the groundbreaking UK theatre and arts company.

    The unusual online film features newsreel footage of the precise moment that the pioneers of Liquid Film blended several secret ingredients and scientific wonder to create Plasticinematography – and a host of characters like the multi-eyed organism, a bucket of mouths… and Morph!

    To watch the exclusive Aardman Animations film users have to navigate through ‘Forkbeard in Space’ a 360 degree panorama of Forkbeard’s studios inspired by the exhibitions, theatre shows, installations, cartoons, animation props and filmic special FX of Forkbeard Fantasy’s 38 year history (– and solve a series of puzzles to create Liquid Film.)

    Users then have to play 2 online games “The Fall of the House of Usherettes” and “The Bonehunter” based on Forkbeard’s classic shows.

    Users are then rewarded with the Aardman Animations film in which they can witness how liquid film created Plasticinematography and the multitude of characters.

    ‘Forkbeard in Space’ the online games and the Aardman Animation online film is one of 51 commissions made by the Arts Council for The Space.

  • Born Free Sequel To Walk With Lions Out Soon On DVD

    Born Free Sequel To Walk With Lions Out Soon On DVD

    To Walk With Lions is the acclaimed follow up to Born Free starring Richard Harris as renowned animal conservationist and lion expert George Adamson.

    This powerful film also stars Honor Blackman and comes to DVD in its first widescreen release on 28 January 2013.

    Set in Kenya in the late 1980s, British backpacker Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) is fired from his safari guide driving stint and lands a job assisting the aging George Adamson at his wildlife reserve. After a shaky start with the lions, Tony soon develops a rapport with the animals and also a strong bond with George who continues to battle the government and poachers to protect the magnificent creatures that mean so much to him.

    To Walk With Lions is an inspiring true story with an outstanding lead performance from acting legend Richard Harris.

  • Jetsam

    Jetsam

    Simon Welsford’s mind bending conspiracy thriller Jetsam will be released in the US and Canada by MVD with a street date set for February 19th 2013.

    Starring Alex Reid (Wilderness), Jamie Draven (Billy Elliott) and Shauna Macdonald (The Descent) Jetsam, which premiered at Slamdance before screenings at Brussels Film Festival, SF Indie Fest and Boston Underground Film Festival tells the story of a woman washed up on a beach with no memory of who she is until a stranger attacks her. As she runs for her life, her memory returns in flashbacks, drawing her to an ancient ruin where she finds her answers in an unrelenting world of spies, betrayal and obsession.

    Frequently compared to Chris Nolan’s Memento and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, Jetsam‘s intricate narrative structure which juxtaposes flashbacks with implanted memories is a cinematic meditation on conspiracy and paranoia which won Best Film at London Independent Film Festival.

  • The Theory Of Everything…In Just Five Minutes.

    The Theory Of Everything…In Just Five Minutes.

    A tiny promotional film by Lovebot Productions, The Theory Of Everything is a great little promotional piece that’ll leave you smarter, happier and, perhaps for many, more optimistic. Professor Hugo Ellis is a fantastically, contagiously enthusiastic senior research astrophysicist, whose work has led him 4,000 miles above sea level, 100 miles from any town or community, to the Querido Observatory in Chile, and it is here, away from everything, that he has discovered the very thing that keeps us together; the very thing that gives everything, from cheese to encircling universes, meaning. Amusing and moving, the film leaves you accidentally educated. It is a brief marriage between an educational high school science film about cosmology and particle physics and a Christmas special, akin to a clip from Love Actually or the like, that leaves you feeling small in the greatest possible way.

    So what is this theory that explains everything so simply and succinctly? Well, needless to say, you’ll have to watch the film, which at five minutes fifteen seconds long isn’t asking much and can be found for free here. And whilst Professor Ellis states that, “generally speaking, Star Wars is not a good reference for planetary physics” the reference he concludes with is equally universal in its appeal and importance…perhaps even a little more so. D’awww.

    Watch it when you wake up, and even if you aren’t the sentimental type, I guarantee the sun will shine a little brighter because of it. Even if those at the Querido Observatory with their gigantic telescope and beautiful research assistants say otherwise.

  • Plastic Shoots In Jan 2013

    Plastic Shoots In Jan 2013

    Plastic, a new film will be shooting in London, Manchetser and Miami and stars Ed Speleers (Downton Abbey), Will Poulter (Wild Bill), Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones), Emma Rigby (The Physician) and Sugarbabe Amelle Barrabah.

    Sam (Ed Speleers) and Fordy (Will Poulter) are not your average university students. Motivated by easy money and the lifestyle that comes with it, they work with Gurmet (Sebastian De Souza) and Yatesy (Alfie Allen) to run an undetected and hugely successful credit card fraud scheme out of their university halls. Life is good; they are young, they are rich, they are invincible.

    That is until Gurmet and Yatesy steal from the wrong man: a seemingly simple job of stealing credit cards from a well off businessman turns sour when the boys take more than they bargain for. Marcel (Danny Trejo), a sadistic gangster finds and threatens the boys getting back what is his, but in the process notices the scheme they have in operation.

    Marcel sees an opportunity to exploit the situation; he demands a long list of goods to be bought to him by 5pm that day. Easy. Marcel is impressed, too impressed, so he ups the stakes. He wants two million, in cash, in two weeks, for the debt to be written off for good. The boys reluctantly agree.

    The boys exploit their venerable and beautiful fellow student Frankie (Emma Rigby), with a promise to help pay for her terminally ill father’s increasing debt. In return, she provides access to the credit card details of the wealthiest international businessmen at Credex. Everything is falling into place.

    That is until once again Yatsey’s greed gets the better of him. A new plan is needed and quick. With Sam falling for Frankie, Marcel’s hench men after them, Yatesy becoming more and more unreliable and time against them, will emotions get in the way of the gang pulling off one of the most daring diamond heists in history?

    Producer Terry Stone commented “Plastic is a fast paced international thriller, it is a fascinating story of greed, wealth and the power of money. The cast are superb and bring together the right mix of intensity, intelligence and confidence required to tell this story, we can’t wait to get started.”